mel jacobson on fri 8 feb 08
got in the hot tub at the pool after my swim.
carol olson got into the tub....she is a woman potter,
friend from the art center.
i said:
carol, how is your new electric kiln firing at home?
she said.
i don't use it, can't get anything good, you know electric
kilns...nothing good happening there.
i said.
carol, you are out of touch...totally.
you need to look around, get a new book, take care of business.
come on over and you can look through my john and ron book.
some exciting things happening.
no..no.
i don't go to the center any longer..now they just want to
do salt. i am out of touch with clay.
and, who can afford to fire away from home.
i only have an electric kiln. it costs hundreds of dollars
to fire at the center.
she is a wonderful potter.
sad.
mel
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Lee on mon 11 feb 08
On Feb 9, 2008 3:53 AM, mel jacobson wrote:
> no..no.
> i don't go to the center any longer..now they just want to
> do salt. i am out of touch with clay.
> and, who can afford to fire away from home.
> i only have an electric kiln. it costs hundreds of dollars
> to fire at the center.
You really can't begrudge what people like to do. How
many people have been held back because their situation is not
"perfect" for their work? I have thrown in my kitchen and on the
porch, handbuilt on the dining room table and fired in the barbecue.
You need to have some commitment and belief in what you are doing.
The big difference I noticed back home in Minneapolis this summer ,
is all the alternative firing possibliites, if you don't own your own
kiln, that don't exist here for me in Mashiko. I met a woman
working behind the counter at Continental Clay, who has a gallery,
rents out studios and fires other people's work, that didn't exist
when I left 8 years ago.
I glaze fired up in St. Cloud. My buddy Dave Glenn
is in charge of the gas kiln that Craig Edwards built for the
Paramount center. The firring fees for even non-members is
reasonable, less than what the clay center dharges. Craig
invited me to fire with him in his anagama. It will be a while
before I have my own kilns set up, so I will have to depend on the
generosity of friends for firing (hope to set up the electric this
summer.)
Please tell Carol to network. If she gets out there, I
know she can find a salt kiln to fire in. I know of an underused
salt kiln, I hope to ask to fire in (I like the color of soda over
salt firing, I will fire soda.)
Minnesota is a great place to be a potter.
--
Lee in Mashiko, Tochigi Japan
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
"Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the
tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know."
--Sen No Rikyu
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
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